Meaning

2 senses
  1. A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.

    Bowlsspiel

    игра́ в боулзigrá v boulz, боулзboulz

  2. A ball used in the game of bowls

More definitions
  • a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
precision sport:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
precision sport:

Forms

plural: bowlses
Singularbowls
Pluralbowlses

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack:lawn bowling

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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